Students have the opportunity to participate in the 2014 Bird Shirt Spring Break Photo Contest by submitting a photo with an individual or group wearing the Fear the Bird Shirt on spring break.
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Tag: Division of Student Affairs
Donald Reed receives Gamsky Award
Donald Reed has been named the recipient of the Neal R. Gamsky Quality of Student Life Award. In his role in University Housing Services, he helped facilitate the opening of Cardinal Court and the 24-hour guest registration system in the residence halls. As associate director, he oversees the University’s apartment communities, residential safety and security,
Engaging diverse students topic of talk
Diversity makes an institution stronger. Illinois State University will host a speaker to offer guidance on engaging diverse populations in higher education. Shaun Harper, associate professor and executive director of the Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk titled Making Engagement Equitable:
Gain skills and network at Winter Leadership Conference 2014, February 22
Join Leadership and Service for the Winter Leadership Conference to be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. February 22 in the Alumni Center.
Bone Student Center to celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week, February 10-14
The Bone Student Center will once again participate in Random Acts of Kindness Week, February 10-14.
Career Center offers spring 2014 walk-in hours
Students can receive career advice and assistance from the Career Center without an appointment during walk-in hours.
Diversity at STATE
Diversity is one of the values at Illinois State University, where we encourage community and a respect for differences by fostering an inclusive environment characterized by cultural understanding, ethical behavior, and social justice.
Diversity Council enhancing cultural competency
On some level, everyone has biases or pre-conceived cultural notions. People may not always be aware of them, but they certainly influence communication and social interaction. Understanding those issues and learning to effectively interact with people from different backgrounds are at the heart of ongoing cultural competency training coordinated by the Diversity Council in the
Celebrated author, activist Andrew Solomon to speak
Andrew Solomon believes it is our differences that unite us.
A celebrated author and lecturer, Solomon will give a talk based on his groundbreaking book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in the Brown Ballroom of the Bone Student Center. The event, which is part of the Speaker Series at Illinois State University, is free and open to the public.
Published in 2012, Far From the Tree won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was chosen as one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2012. The work is a breathtaking look at parents and children who face extraordinary circumstances including deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism and schizophrenia, to those facing stigmas for being transgender, prodigies or conceived in rape. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, Solomon argues, the “experience of difference” within families is universal.
